For starters, you can choose the grouping that you want to animate. For example, suppose that you have three levels of bullets in the text box, and you want them to be animated with each second-level bullet appearing separately.

Different effect categories have different choices. For example, the Emphasis category, in addition to providing movement-based effects, also has effects that change the color, background, or other attributes of the object.

Entering a basic formula is straightforward. Select the cell, enter an equal sign, type in the formula, and press Enter. Typing the formula is very similar to entering an equation on a calculator, with one exception.

One of the most popular views for assigning resources is the Gantt Chart view with the Task Form view in the bottom pane. You can also add resources in that view by using the resource details in the lower pane.

There are three cost measures you can associate with a resource. The Standard Rate is used for work completed during normal working hours. The Overtime Rate is used for work completed during overtime hours.

Windows Defender helps to protect your computer from spyware and other malicious software. But it doesn't protect against all viruses. For virus protection, you need a third-party program (a program that doesn't come free with Windows 7). The Windows Action Center can detect some (but not all) antivirus programs.

Outlook isn’t just for e-mail. It provides other features for communicating with coworkers and friends, particularly if you have Office Communicator or one of the other compatible instant messaging systems. With presence information turned on, you can easily initiate a chat session or voice call with a contact.

SharePoint calendars and contacts are particular types of lists in SharePoint. You can connect other types of lists to Outlook, as well. For example, you can connect a document library to Outlook. When you do so, Outlook creates a cached local copy of the documents on your computer.

If you have personal messages which contain important information that you don’t want to lose when the message is deleted by your administrator, you can send such messages to OneNote, where they will not expire. In addition, by storing selected Outlook e-mail messages in your notebooks, you can use OneNote’s Instant Search to find specific information in the messages.

At the location of your cursor, OneNote will insert all available meeting details in an easy-to-skim table. You can delete any information that you don’t want or need to keep as part of your notes. Similarly, you can delete the names of people who were invited but didn’t attend.

As a tool for giving life to ideas and plans, I find OneNote to be without equal. However, there might be times when you need to present the information in your notes to someone else in a more formal manner, such as a report for your boss or a paper for a teacher.

Visio ScreenTips offer a simple and clandestine way to add comments to your shapes. ScreenTips are just like ToolTips that you see everywhere in Windows when your mouse stops moving over some bit of the user interface.

When you create a field by typing, Access 2010 defines the table’s first field as a sequentially numbered field named ID, which serves as the table’s primary key field. It’s a good idea to leave the field in the table, but you should rename it to something more descriptive so you can identify it if you use it as a foreign key.

Creating a database table that doesn’t include a primary key field makes it difficult to get data out of your table by using queries and in relationships with other tables. You should always have a primary key field in every table you create.

One of the benefits of the Outline tab is that it provides a fast way for you to enter text without having to deal with placeholders or graphics. After you enter the title, adding text to the outline consists of pressing Enter to create a new entry in the outline and then entering the text, which appears at the same outline level as the line before.

Different slide layouts contain different placeholders, such as title, subtitle, text, and content placeholders. You can enter text in the placeholders on a slide or in the Outline tab of the Slides/Outline pane.

Administrators often encounter problems when joining a computer running Windows to an AD DS domain. Additionally, users might receive error messages about domain controllers being unavailable when trying to log on to their computer with a domain account.

When your network is working properly, look up the IP addresses of several different computers, including computers on your subnet, other subnets on your intranet, and computers on the Internet. Test the IP addresses to verify that they respond to Ping requests. Keep this list available so that you can use the IP addresses to test for network connectivity without relying on name resolution.

If you have a network connectivity problem, you will be unable to reach any network resource that can normally be accessed using the failed network. For example, if your Internet connection has failed, you will be unable to access Internet resources, but you might still be able to access resources on your LAN.

Experienced business people can tell a lot about numbers just by looking at them to see if they "look right." That is, the sales figures are about where they’re supposed to be for a particular hour, day, or month; the average seems about right; and sales have increased from year to year.

Goal Seek is a great tool for finding out how much you need to change a single input value to generate a desired result from a formula, but it’s of no help if you want to find the best mix of several input values.

When you run an organization, you must track how every element performs, both in absolute terms and in relation to other parts of the organization. Just as you might want to reward your employees for maintaining a perfect safety record and keeping down your insurance rates, you might also want to stop carrying products you cannot sell.

A GREAT ORGANIZATIONAL TOOL, Word outlines assist you by using major topics (called headings) and subtopics to categorize a task and its subtasks. Most of us work with mental outlines every day. If you were to plan your basic day, you might plan it like this: The major topics would be the places you go that day (work, grocery, dinner), and the subtopics might be what you plan to do at each place.

A device driver is a software program that allows your operating system or a software program to “talk” to a device connected to your computer, such as a printer or a scanner. The OneNote print driver can intercept the information other programs send to your printer and, instead of committing the information to paper and ink, print it out electronically on a OneNote page instead.

Most spyware comes from software that you can download for free, such as screen savers, custom toolbars, and file-sharing programs. However, it can also be installed automatically from scripts and programs embedded in Web pages.

The Windows Live Family Safety add-on adds Web filtering and activity reporting to your toolbox of parental controls. To add these controls to your computer, first make sure you have a Windows Live account. If you don't, you can create one the first time you visit the Web site.

Sometimes you might want to allow your children to use the computer but not use the Internet. For example, they might need to do homework but you don't want them on the Web. You can prevent their access to the Internet by blocking Internet Explorer, but I block Internet traffic at the home firewall instead.

Even though a mapped network drive shows up as a disk drive in the Computer folder, a shared network resource need not be a disk drive at all. It can be a folder. The term "network drive" just refers to the fact that the shared resource "looks like" a drive, by virtue of the fact that it has a drive letter and icon in your Computer folder.

Callouts are blocks of text linked to a graphic via a line or other pointing visual. They are used to annotate diagrams without interrupting the flow of the main visual. A classic callout is the word balloon that you see in comics to indicate speech.

One of the drawbacks to PowerPoint is that the notes and handouts pages cannot be fully formatted. There's a lot you can't do with them — such as set margins, or change the sizes of the slide images for handouts.

Speaker notes are like handouts, but for you. Only one printout format is available for them: the Notes Pages layout. It consists of the slide on the top half (the same size as in the two-slides-per-page handout) with the blank space below it for your notes to yourself.

You can edit a resource calendar from the Change Working Time dialog box, although you cannot change the name of the base calendar the resource calendar is linked to from there. Select the Project tab, Change Working Time to display the Change Working Time dialog box, and then use the drop-down list in the For box to select the resource name.

Use the Max Units field to enter the maximum number of units that can currently be assigned to tasks at any one time. Project uses the Max Units field to determine when the resource is overallocated (when more units of the resource have been assigned than are available) and when leveling resources.

For example, you could identify all packing materials, such as boxes, tape, wrapping paper, and so on, by entering Packing Materials, all moving personnel by entering Movers, or all pieces of equipment by entering Equipment.